Seth Godin Quotes
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I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.
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While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow.
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Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.
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You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.
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So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by Rupert Murdoch or the guys at Viacom. It is a form of media that is earned every single time it spreads.
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Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.
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You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.
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Keep starting until you finish.
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The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.
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The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
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The job is not the work.
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Everyone is not your customer.
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
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Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.
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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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Make a decision. It doesn't have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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It's far easier to put your future into someone else's hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.
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More time to decide without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.
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When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?
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School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because they worked hard enough to reach them.
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Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.
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Shame must be accepted to be effective.
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People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.